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‘Broken Embraces’ isn’t funny

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"Films have to be finished," intones Mateo, the blind-former-filmmaker. "Even if you do it blindly...

Kevin Costner hates you

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He laid low...

‘The play and adventure are one’

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From Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, the Adventure Film Festival (AFF) returns to Boulder for its 12th annual celebration of those who “make their...

Mommy issues

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A mother is on trial for murdering her child. We know how, but not why. Nor does the mother. She does not deny the...

reel to reel | Week of Nov. 3, 2011

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50/50...

reel to reel | Week of Feb. 9, 2012

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ADDICTION INC...

‘The world’s biggest student film’

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It was 1983 when British filmmaker Alex Cox turned in his first feature film to Universal Studios. That same week, Cox optioned the rights to one of his favorite science-fiction novels for a future project. The movie was Repo Man. The book was Harry Harrison’s Bill, ...

Glorious geekdom

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Let me just start out by admitting that Tron: Legacy is one of the most entertaining geeky sci-fi films I’ve seen this year and is sure to fill theaters for months to come...

These pictures of you

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Helmut Newton had a sense of humor. That might not be your immediate takeaway if you do a Google search for his photographs (after...

Sequel, heal thyself

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Pretend you were excited for the big screen version of 21 Jump Street. Yeah, nobody believes you. Writers Michael Bacall and Jonah Hill teamed up with directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller for the most hilarious, self-aware adaptation of a Richard Greico ...

Love high

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There are unsightlier hags in the world than Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal, and the seriously mood-swinging romantic comedy Love & Other Drugs offers several acres of surface appeal simply because their characters, Maggie and Jamie, spend a heartening amount of ...

Watch This: ‘Master of the Flying Guillotine’

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Master of the Flying Guillotine is Taiwanese director Jimmy Wang Yu’s 1976 sequel to One Armed Boxer. Yu not only directed and wrote the film but starred as the main character, a martial arts master who is stalked by a blind assassin seeking revenge...